On the Head and Across the Lips

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Graduation ceremonies, for the most part, are over now, at least around here. The graduates have listened to platitudes about endings and beginnings, attitudes and adventures ahead, and falling down and getting back up again. Forty years ago, about half of students who began college dropped out by the end of their freshman year. Today, it's about the same number, from my last check. Sixty years ago, there was about a fifty percent dropout rate in high school, from the freshman year to the senior year. To check on your high school, just open the latest school yearbook and count the number of freshmen and compare that number to the total of graduating seniors. (Of course, states' educational bureaucracies today "adjust" the rate, using special "formulas".)

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